Thank you for giving voice to the voiceless. The ece community. Ive been in this field since 2002. Weve been through many struggles. This is the commitment to the infrastructure. We have building and staff and children we want to support. Its time you make the investment. We have a waiting list, the whole city has a waiting list that will never be filled. I have a list of 18 months and children will never get a slot. With this bill i hope to fill desires and hopes and if you make the Infrastructure Investment in the children i hope that the housing can be passed in november at a later time. Its a good idea in policy that you invest in the children and Families First and we need a much bigger bill. 1 million would be great for housing. It could make maybe 100 units or so but not a lot. Please make this investment. Its a longterm investment for the children of San Francisco and please make this happen. Thank you so much. Good afternoon, supervisors. We havent made en endorsement but i look forward for the opportunity for the childcare measure as i puts money in peoples pockets immediately. As we know as i believe much of San Francisco and california believe, when you raise peoples wages you benefit not just that person but you benefit everybody in the economy. Thats an opportunity we cant look past and i look forward to helping members deliberate over this and other measures. I also want to say we represent childcare workers at San FranciscoUnified School District who would be a beneficiary of this measure. Were appreciative of the opportunity to consider this. Thank you. Hello. Im mary eglasias a district 8 redents. I have two sons. My husband and i. When i went back from Maternity Leave with my second son the logical thing would be to put my 3monthold where the 4monthold was in the Childcare Center. Cost of doing that would have been 3500, 3600 a month with the sibling discount and credit. Affordable childcare is out of reach for middle income and the cost of 3500 it doesnt matter if youre a lower wage or middle income family the cost is the same. I dont want to repeat too much but the issue of homelessness, for the families that are homeless now ensuring the children are in Quality Childcare settings not in cars should be the number one priority. When we think about the Business Community having employees who are coming to work every day on time with piece of mind because their children are safe is critical to running a business. Our early educators are also business people. They run Childcare Centers and Family Childcare homes and their ability to earn the wages they deserve i believe they should be called brain architects because we could pay them the way they should be paid. Theyre going to generate gross receipts to help the economy. While the initiative is to raise taxes theres output. Lastly, i want to say the debate we witnessed early i think was a perfect example of what we want to teach our kids. How to use our words, how to play nice, how to regulate our emotion and thats what kids learn in their earlier years and sets them up for life and hope the other supervisors will vote yes and endorse this initiative because it will show that we can all play nice in the sand box. Hi, my name is oscar wua tang and a family care provider. My family runs a family care provider and im on the board of Family Childcare association of San Francisco as well. I want to share a story what happened when we are meeting with hightech companies in our daycare and theyre moving out. The company is pinterest and they want to keep their employee in San Francisco and theyre moving out because they cannot find Quality Childcare in San Francisco. I dont think thats what San Francisco wants to see. If you see how. I think Quality Childcare is important and Everybody Needs to invest on it. Thank you. Hello. Im julie salem a Childcare Provider in the 9114. I search families and a third are lowincome and moderate income families. Family childcare and childcare in general, Quality Childcare provides a home away from home and a place where the previous speaker said they learn how to regulate their emotions and play fair and include everybody. When we think about housing and childcare and the kids doubled up and in sros in housing more than anything need childcare and childcare is much cheaper than housing though both are important, i think the childcare impact is very great for families. If childcare is affordable for low and middleincome families they can afford the rent increase. If its money in their pockets they can afford to support their families. I hope we can go for universal childcare in San Francisco. Thank you. Im the ceo of hamilton families and i want to come out today because i think its really difficult for us to be debating these issues separately. Families already have to make this impossible decision every single day. They dont live their lives in vacuums. They dont live it by policy. They have to choose every single day whether or not they go to work thank you, joanna ketos ceo. Im encouraged by the leadership for the measure as i believe we can leverage existing structures that support children and families such as the Early LearningScholarship Program that will allow the measure to increase subsidies for those more moderate income families and address the wage for the ece workforce. Every parent i talk to is struggle because they cant afford or cant find a slot and they cant stay in the profession they chose and every provider is also struggling to attract, recruit and retain teachers. Thats a huge issue. The key to ending this funding drought for early care and education is for the ballot measure to address the key challenges. I urge you to continue to support and stand up for children, families and the providers doing this work. Thank you. Good afternoon. Happy valentines day. Im pat sullivan the director of the Family Care Association of San Francisco. I think if you look at the group of people that spoke most are women and people of color. Have you to start asking yourself who do you want to listen to in the city. Business leaders are probably not women or people of color. Though they may have a vested interest of how to things go in the city, they probably dont live here or send their kids to school hore here and probably dont vote here. This say womans issue and childcare measure has the biggest bang for the buck. While we spend a lot of time talking about supporting, this is going to be a bigger impact faster and will impact more lives than the housing measure thats currently being discussed. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Hi, im michelle lundy. A retired Childcare Provider. I had a preschool in glen park for 33 years. Im for both measures. I dont want to be campaigning against housing but its an impossible situation here with the two legislations. We need both. I brought you valentines yesterday from our children and i hope it can be worked out. We need both. I was on the state board of the Family Childcare association and San Francisco for years has been a leader in what we did fer what theyve provide and this measure will help children and families and when i got signatures in glen park it was easy. Were having a baby boom in glen park. Just stay on the playground and get signatures but glen park has changed as my supervisor was saying. When i bought my house 45 years ago it was a working class neighborhood. Thank you very much. Supervisor stefani, i have another valentine for you from parent voices. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im salary large the executive director for the past three decades of friends of st. Francis Childcare Center. The past chair of the San Francisco planning and Advisory Council and board member of the San Francisco childcare association. My staff turn over has increased. My staff earns less than the subsidized children we serve. San francisco has invested in many remarkable quality features in the past few years. We have pfa coaches, Mental Health consultants and other resources but each year we train a new crop of teachers because staff cannot afford to stay in this career. Even if they have housing, they cannot afford to send their kids to college to pay for transportation, to start planning for retirement plans early in life to have enough to live on when they retire after a long career in Early Childhood which they realize they cant do. The city quality money is like a turnstile. If we invest now, however, in ece wages teachers can stay in the career and use Affordable Housing and other necessities theyll be able to pay for. Please vote for the ece part of this initiative and lets Work Together to get housing funds as our next priority. Ec workers care for the Homeless Children and were committed to helping these families find and keep work and obtain housing. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im beth stokes of the episcopal chapter of San Francisco. Not known as the provider of service for family. Ecs provides nearly 100 units of Supportive Housing for families. And our portfolio in that arena continues to grow as were asked to step up and provide more Supportive Housing to families. What we know is families would benefit from affordable chi childcare. Theres no doubt. Im support of locations where one building in particular cannot afford a Childcare Center thats operating out of the building in which they live. Thats hard to hear and difficult to see and ecs has 300 employees living with minimum with, many of them, and many would benefit from affordable childcare and struggle to live in the city. Many dont live in the city. Many would benefit. Thank you. Hello. Happy valentines day. Sorry, i didnt bring v valentines. Im rebecca browning. I would like to say in support of the measure because every parent living in San Francisco its hard to maintain normalcy in terms of having housing food and transportation and everything and affordable childcare is needed and the [indiscernible] board though they officially come out they do support it. Thank you and have a great valentines day. Next speaker, please. Im brad chafin im on the board of the milk club and we havent taken a position but im speaking for myself. Its difficult to be vulnerable when talking about these things but i think its important. My mother was a foster child and had me in high school and worked to get an Associates Degree in childcare partially to afford to have childcare for me. My mom, who had no support at all would never be able to support childcare in the city like this. You have to think of how different it may be had i not had the support i had growing up. The most critical time in the Brain Development is from birth to 3 and the brains capacity is 90 developed before a child reaches age 5. San francisco has more than 2400 children on a wait list for quality care and more than 1600 of these children are under age 3. Those early years play such a Critical Role and when we think about whos most vulnerable, middleincome folks getting housing is much less urgent than children who desperately need to be supported and to be successful in life. The rest of their lives depend on this. I dont think theres comparison. These things shouldnt be put at odds with one another but there is something more urgent and more vulnerable. Thanks. Im vonda david cincinnati and worked at the crosscultural center for over 20 years as the executive director. The next year well celebrate our 50th anniversary. We serve 362 children in 13 centers and Different Centers and outer richmond, the tenderloin and hayes valley. 110 of those children are ages 4 month to 30 months, infants and toddlers. I want to tell you, first, about our families and then about our teachers and caregivers who devote their professional careers to caring for and teaching these very young children. First, the families that we serve, live in low and middle income neighborhoods and over 50 receive subsidized care through the department of education. For the the most part theyre janitors, grounds keepers, grocery clerk baggers, bus drivers, hotel house keepers and restaurant employees to name a few, a very few of the types of jobs that support our beautiful and wonderful city. The industries they support are tourism and Internet Technologies and medical technology, research and international and National Financial institutions, museums and institutions of higher learning, urban and Natural Resource leaders of the world. These depend on the infrastructure and fort of families who live here. Thank you, maam. Good afternoon. Im with the fresno Childcare Providers association supporting childcare teachers throughout San Francisco. I have redrafted what i going to say several times in hearing others. I want to speak to those who want to claim out of poverty and cant keep being put as a second priority. I dont know if you know of the story of the federal bill put forward in 1971 but mondale put it forward after looking out his window and saw a young boy, 6, 7 years old crossing the street. That little boy was crossing the street because his younger brother was at home would childcare and went home every day and bought his younger brother food from his childcare. That 6yearold, 7yearold boy was hit by a truck and thats when mondale put the childcare act forward. Depending on what lens you look through and what priority you can give to housing or childcare, it is different. At that point the childcare ended that childs need for any further housing. I think we have to be careful about putting priorities on human needs. Now is not the time to make these priorities. Its the time to unify and raise revenue for all these important issues. I support the Early Childhood measure. Thank you. Next speaker. Im worked in this industry for 18 years and was a parent in a subsidized program which allowed me to do these things. Thank you. Ive experienced for all these years the benefits that early care programs provide for the child, the family and the community. I think by now most people know about Brain Development and in longitudinal studies know about quality programs to the child and you heard this from a couple parents today. There are many other benefits. The parents, grandparents can enroll and knowing their children are safe and happy and can be more productive at work. Children receive vision, hearing, dental and sometimes sensory motor and other assessments. Children who have special needs can start to receive these needs early and then sometimes when theyre ready to go to kindergarten because they received Early Intervention they can go in to a regular classroom and sometimes they still need an individualized Education Plan but they started with us and dont have to wait years to have someone discover their special needs. Parents can receive help if they need it or share periences experiences from other parents and learn from each other. Programs are often involved in their community. At our Program Children sang for seniors on special occasions. In other programs they participate in Community Events and staff and parents develop community leadership. So quality Early Childhood benefits everyone even those may i have a question of ms. Baker if we can have your final thoughts to have your microphone on. Id hate to see this in competition with housing. Everything i know and ive experienced, ive experienced parents whose children are in their cars who come in and say theyre at their workplaces but they cant continue to work because its not going to be allowed. I know for children this is the road to success, i know from my child who has spent all her life working in social services. Its a benefit for not just the parents but the Community Benefits as well. Thank you, maam. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisor. Im with the tenderloin development corporation. As my colleague mentioned before, our organization has not formally taken a stance on this measure but im here today to speak to the really extreme importance of the babies and Families First fund. No matter what angle you come from its an acquisition situation and it would be transformative for many to stay in their city and be functioning members of their community. People talk about all the Jobs Available in San Francisco and theres been positive press but this unlocks peoples ability to engage and benefit from the jobs by providing affordable childcare for their younger children. Additionally, as has come up, this is an important gender issue. If were continuing to examine disparities between men and women though men are often the main childcare but its the responsibility that often falls on women and its important to think about this from that gender angle as well. No matter how you view it its crucially important. Thank you for your time. Good afternoon. I hadnt intend to speak but i came here for item 4 but after listening for 2½ hours for the extraordinary needs for people for housing and now for childcare, i said thats me. Thats my family theyre talking about because my son and his wife and my grandchild live with me because they cant afford a place in the city and they have their grandfather, whos 80 years old and their grandmother, whos 73 as babysitters and childcare workers because they cant afford childcare. We should not have to create between the two. It creates an ideological tribal warfare in the city that doesnt belong here. In my day, though it was a while ago, would do is go into competing ideas and come out of the room until we resolved it and seen kim do it with the giants. We were there until 4 30 in the morning with her and we started at 2 00. Ive seen yee do it with the school board and now, mr. Chairman, im challenging you do the same with your colleagues. Go in a room and dont come out until you bring both worthy, necessary things for our city together. Thank you, mr. Mayor. Any other comments . Public comment is closed. I see on the second page of the one submitted for signature you have a number of categories, a, b, c, d to be funded in terms of compensation and investment in comprehensive Early Childhood education and services, support for Early Childhood education for those living up to 200 of the ami and those under 6 but older than 4 for 85 of varied Median Income. I understand the board of supervisors will give guidance, but what do you think the things in totality add up to if were to meet all the categories . How would the office of Early Childhood education make priority in terms of 85 and 200 , you want to increase wages. We have a new system a reimbursement rate for providing high quality education in San Francisco. We implemented that we know the rates are too low and need to be increased and it incorporates cost to the teachers. The reimbursement rate covers Quality Services and it covers the compensation and currently we only benchmark and give some suggested benchmarks of what compensation should be. We have heard feedback from the community its too low and needs to be increased. The idea is wed work with supervisors and board around the implementation of the increased funding and figure out the priorities of the greatest need. We know infants and toddlers have the greatest unmet need. We want to target that age group. We dont have enough subsidies for the age group. We know theres a desire from the measure to increase the income level. Currently the moderate support goes up to families at 110 of the ami. The idea of increasing that threshold to a higher salary for families i think we feel the model we have is scaleable and we have had requests from the mayors Budget Office and supervisors around different models that show different age groups and different income levels of families of how we can incorporate additional funding to meet the priorities within this measure. I hear that is there a reason why didnt to that with the average salary of 26,000 a year for a teacher and you want to that how many workers wan you serve with that . Thats one. The other is it talks about increasing access for ami and cuts it at 110. Would we have to create a new wait list . Would we be creating an entire new wait list . I think the devils in the details of the implementation. We cant meet every family at 200 of ami even with additional funding. We have done analysis of the cost of providing care to all families that would be eligible under that category. Wed have to look at an opportunity for universal prek for 2 to 4yearolds and look at 03yearolds. We can were able to look at the different models to see what would work. As far as the income, our overarching goal is teachers in the Early Education field and would be 50 million alone. Were not going to be able to reach that in one fell swoop. Hopefully more funding could come and we could achieve our goal. We have to look at Additional Resources and work with the Mayors Office that want to be addressed. I know we added 4 million for getting people off the wait list and your office said theres a problem with finding a list. Is there a problem in facilities . How are we going to meet the demand . How are we going to provide if they cant find space and how will we increase the capacity . The capacity is an issue. We work with the fund. Thats ongoing. We have a lot of projects in the pipeline. We have the Community Based organizations looking to expand and want to expand were looking at the state to look to transfer loan funds into grants for agency might be eligible for expansion for their facilities its an issue. And looking at the pipeline we have im not sewer sure the funding would be part of capacity but we have a separate revenue stream. Im familiar with the childcare Facilities Fund. If the money were here how are we going to implement it if we dont have the slot and i hear what youre saying the childcare Facilities Fund is important and the priorities in terms of 200 of ami or increasing peoples compensation package or doing universal from 3 to 4. Theyre important conversations to have. This is going to be out there. People will be talking and asking questions this is my first opportunity to ask the question to have the chance so thats why im asking. I dont think i have any other questions particularly now. I think that got to the heart of what i was asking im told im allowed to answer a question. Supervisor kim. Actually, i was about to answer i will ask you a question. So we have heard classrooms are closed and theyre not able to hire teachers and programs are closed because there are no teachers. We can pay teachers a more reasonable wage the hope is they can entice teachers into the programs and open the classrooms and expand capacity that way. We know some arent working at full capacity because of the workforce crisis. Id like to ask you a question about capacity as well. Thank you, sure. I can ask members of public a question. Can you reiterate your name . Sara sidlay of the San Francisco childcare association. We did some informal survey of our sites and found over a third of the sites were not able to fill to capacity because they couldnt find teachers. Again, this raising the wages, too often these issues are looked at as separately. We see how much low wages have impacted the issues and if were able to increase wages we can tract new people in the field and thats what we need to do. Thank you. Do you have other questions . I was going to respond to your question, safai, i said it during item one and reiterate the cost. To make Early Childhood education which is my goal over time free, for every family is a 560 million initiative. To make it affordable its a 260 million initiative. Its a revenue measure. Youre going take 50 of the chunk of making childcare affordable for all families. I want to make sure this wont be sitting around while we look for funds. Several people that spoke spoke to facilities and we have hunters view that just opened and looking at sunny dale. The department of planning has been working one us amazingly. We partnered with the Planning Department so much over the last year around how to make the expansion of childcare facilities easier and less burdensome. And the Mayors Office of housing development. Thats a lot of interagency, city support. I believe looking at the pipeline of neighborhoods one is looking to open three new Childcare Centers in the next few years. I believe we will have increased capacity to serve the children we would like to serve. Thank you. So supervisor kim, i heard you say 560 million and 260 million. What do you think . Its a 560 million to make it free. Free for everybody. Nobody pays a dime. What we looked at though its a high dollar amount. Its great we can say what the number is. Then we looked at it again and we said okay what if we made it affordable for every family which according to stay definition is no more than 10 of your gross income and thats 260 million. Thats on top of what we already invest in Early Childhood education and by the way, San Francisco should be proud. Were one of the few cities that achieved universal preschool for 4yearolds starting through chairman yee and we went to the ballot in 2004 with the seed money start at 3. 3 million a year to make preschool available for every fouryearold in San Francisco and San Francisco hit 90 of 4yearolds in San Francisco attend a qualified preschool and thats an amazing achievement. Bill de blasio is talking about it and weve already done it. We talk about doing this for middleclass families which we havent done. This measure is the first step in us hitting the next chunk. By the way, it is a big chunk were taking on in this measure. Just to clarify, the 200 of ami the increase the investment in comprehensive early childcare and the increasing compensation and the 85 of the ami, that all this fits in this particular measure is about 260 million . I understand you said it afford and but if you separate it . If we made it affordable for every family its another 260 million. This takes us halfway. You think to cover everybody everybody 260 million as the first step. This is not a gotyou question. We have roughly 30 million is that correct . The 4,200 families on the wait list at 85 of state Median Income so this is homeless too thats about 30 to 40 million and the rest will be divvied up amongst middleclass families through some type of process the board will institute. We didnt want to tie the hand of the board too much but the goals of the measure are very clear. I see that. Its listed a through d. I was just trying to get a handle on that and you said 25 million for the general fund so that would reduce it to what, 146 minus 25 and the remainder exclusive for this . I was going off what the controllers report. It estimates it will bring in slightly over 140 million a year and of that, on 25 million will be dedicated to the general fund with an eye towards funding the mco this does not escalate. Does that make sense. Is there a sunset on it or in perpetuity . The tax has no sunset. The expenditure plan is 20 years. The tax will always keep coming to the city. Okay. Thanks. Supervisor yee. One of the reasons why we dont have an exact number in terms of dollar amount or percentage was to keep the priorities. When i crunched the numbers, were going to serve everybody on the existing wait list and beyond that probably another double that to those that are 200 of ami and were actually going to get pretty close to serving most of them because theres a copay thats mirroring what we do at the state level. [please stand by] but right now, my commitment, it doesnt get any lower than that. So thats how were going to handle that. And the other reason why we dont want to set everything in stone is because who knows . Maybe donald trump will actually do universal child care for everybody, and then, we can use that funding for more for the compensation. I dont know. I was like what . Watch your mouth. Okay. Is there somewhere in the in the ordinance that says that first, that youre pulling from the wait list and thats the priority or is that just something that you yes. Its in there . Its in there. I saw the 2400 on the wait list called out, and specifically more than 1600 are under the age of three, so it says 24, but i didnt see anything in the a, b, c, and d oh, wait. Yeah, okay. All right. I dont have any other supervisor stefani . Ste yeah, thank you, supervisor. Sorry. You know, i just want to say and commend all my colleagues here. These are extremely important issues, and sit here and feel like theyre being pitted against one another is quite frankly, honestly, uncomfortable. Im a mother, and i have a 13yearold son and an eightyearold daughter, and ive been through these challenges and ive heard all the speakers today, and i just want to say ive heard you. Ive heard my friend, ivy, on committee on this. They all tug at my heart strings. From what i said in the previous item on the homeless on the family homeless issue, these are extreme issues facing our city, and to see them pitted against each other obviously, im new, and this is my second week here in this capacity, any way and i just want to reiterate my commitment to really i dont know how this is all going to play out, but i can reiterate my commitment here today to working with all my colleagues on these issues because quite frankly theyre all important, and im not going to say Housing First and child care first. Theyre all extremely important, and i just want to get that on the record that i am committed to working on all of these issues with all of my colleagues, and im fine with being stuck in a room for a long period of time, and i look forward to having the opportunity to do that with my colleagues to see if we can really drill down and find solutions to these issues facing our families in San Francisco, the middle class, our homeless. We have a lot of work to do, and im actually really looking forward to working with my colleagues to get things done. Thanks. Supervisor safai any other members . Ill just end my saying i also and how things move forward is not exactly clear. I appreciate mayor agnos challenging me, and im open to conversations. Im always open to negotiate. Its in my blood, and im happy to sit down with anyone and have that conversation. But as i said before, i campaigned on access and affordable child care. I made that support and commitment to 4 million to get children on wait list. We were on the phone on a threeway conference call, and he was in chicago, and we were making sure those priorities were met, and had september on the other line, director jared. This is something near and dear to my heart, so regardless of the out come, im committed to seeing this move forward in a positive manner. So did you want to make a motion, supervisor . Supervisor yee well, first of all, i forgot to thank the public for coming out and spending this time with us, and sharing their stories. Makes me want to fight harder for this cause. Thank you very much for coming, and all i have to say is its been an interesting conversation, and hopefully, we can move forward in a positive manner, and for this initiative, i its such a its such an important thing to do at this point. I know the impact of this initiative is going to be so immediate and to so many families. We have to take that into consideration, and once and for all try to start addressing the low wages that our professional early educators get, receive in the other city. And as you heard already, we cant even open up the classrooms because we cant fill it with teachers at this point. The capacitys there, in terms of the facilities, and if the center these programs arent enough in terms of capacity, we know we can ramp up much quicker with our Family Child Care providers who by the way, the Family Child Care providers have been crucial and always have been crucial in serving those those that are the youngest, from zero to three. So we cant forget their capacity in all of this, so supervisor safai actually, i do have one question, just a procedural question. So i know you had one that was qualified for the ballot via signature, and then you had another one, so whats the plan Going Forward . Well, just to have a hearing and close the hearing. Okay. So well file it. Oh, supervisor kim. Supervisor kim thank you. I also want to concur can supervisor norman yee, and thank everyone that came out to speak today. And i also want to thank mayor art agnos for the call to make sure that we all walk out of there with something that helps all of us. I think its incredibly important, ive only been on the board for the last seven years, but i want to talk about what the mayor and board has done on the issue of housing. In 2004, we setup the Housing Trust fund. In 2014, i submitted to the voters, proposition k with mayor ed lee which committed to the city to build 30,000 new and rehabilitated units by 2020, 50 of which would be affordable to families here in San Francisco. In 2015, i said we would dedicate any vacant property to affordable and miding class housing as well as housing to the homeless and formerly homeless. In 2015, this city put forth the largest geobond for Affordable Housing and Home Ownership opportunities. In 2016, supervisor peskin and i went to the voters and asked them to increase the inclusionary rates, raising them to 25 onsite and 33 offsite because we had seen through deals that developers could build 20, 25 , 33 , 40 onsite Affordable Housing with the right incentives. And im excited today that i will be putting forward to the voters in november , a 1 billion geobond for Affordable Housing, and i hope that every member of this board can get behind that, so we dont have a fight today about whether were going to fund Affordable Housing today or affordable child care tomorrow. This 140 million is going to make a dent in child care, and i think one of the most heartbreaking moments for me in the last couple of months was visiting with our early child care providers in september with supervisor norman yee and hearing the stories that our providers go through on a daily basis, turning away families that want to get access to child care, not being able to know if theyre going to be able to stay in their job one more year cause they cant afford to make so little to continue in the job that they love doing so much, as their commute gets farther and farther from the city and county of San Francisco. And and most heartbreakingly to hear that we actually have swaths available in our Child Care Centers today, but we cant fill them because no one is willing to make so little or actually, i should say, no one can make this little and live anywhere close to San Francisco to serve our children and our families. So im going to propose today that we move forward with two measures one, the 140 million commercial receipts measure that supervisor yee and i began discussing public plea in september of last year for child care and Early Childhood education. I hope 11 members of this board gets behind a 1 billion geobond for Affordable Housing in november november. I hope i have all of your support for child care on june